Societe Generale on the off-chance of global collapse

[bigbadwolf]

Found this at globalresearch:

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In a report entitled "Worst-case debt scenario", the bank's asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.

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If so, gold would go "up, and up, and up" as the only safe haven from fiat paper money. Private debt is also crippling. Even if the US savings rate stabilises at 7pc, and all of it is used to pay down debt, it will still take nine years for households to reduce debt/income ratios to the safe levels of the 1980s.

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[Eugene Krel]

French people are known to panic first.

 

[bigbadwolf]

French people are known to panic first.

I'm pretty panicky myself right now. At the moment I don't see any alternative to governments inflating their debt away. So gold, silver, palladium, etc. prices should go up. And I don't need to solve an SDE to arrive at this insight.

 

[GoIllini]

French people are known to panic first.

And also cause panic. They have a revolution practically every 30-40 years. They actually came very close back in 1968.

If anything, the French know how to deal with econopolitical uncertainty.